After losing three out of four games to Erie and four out of their last five overall, the Aeros got back on the winning track Saturday with a 6-4 victory over visiting Richmond in the first of game of this four-game series that wraps up the current home stand.

The Aeros (49-32) did it against the league’s top pitcher in Richmond ace and RHP Chris Heston, who entered the game with a 6-3 record and league-best 1.68 ERA.

The Aeros got on the board first with two runs in the second inning, sparked by 3B Kyle Bellows’ RBI-single that scored LF Jeremie Tice (who’d doubled ahead of him). Bellows then scored on a throwing error by Heston to give Aeros 2-0 lead.

The Aeros placed four players on the Eastern All-Star Game, as starting pitcher Steven Wright, reliever Kyle Landis, outfielder Thomas Neal and first baseman Chun Chen will represent Akron on the EL Western Division All-Star Team July 11th in Reading, Pa.

The knuckleball-wielding Wright, 27, is 6-5 with a 1.98 ERA in 14 starts. His 1.98 ERA ranks second in the league and his 75 strikeouts ranks fifth. Wright tossed the Aeros first complete-game shutout May 6th against Bowie since 2009.

After halting the Aeros 14-game home winning streak with a win in the second game of Wednesday’s double header, visiting Binghamton one-upped the ante by wrapping up the Aeros quick homestand with another victory via a 4-2 win Thursday night.

The Aeros got on the board first in the bottom of the first inning when DH Chun Chen singled home SS Juan Diaz, who doubled off the base of the left centerfield wall with one out.

Pitching ruled the game early, and a home run won it for the Aeros in extra innings Saturday night as Akron raised its home winning streak to 11 games with a 2-1 victory over Altoona at Canal Park.

Aeros starting pitcher and LHP T.J. House earned the win by keeping the Curve off the board until the eighth inning, when they strung together three singles to score a game-tying run that eventually sent the action into extra innings.

Outfielder Tim Fedroff (.305, 17 extra-base hits, 22 RBI) is being sent to AAA Columbus. Catcher Michel Hernandez will return to Akron from Columbus. Outfielder Thomas Neal has come off the DL and 2B Matt Lawson is off to Mahoning Valley to make room for him.

Desperatly looking to snap a 2-2 tie heading into the 14th inning, the Aeros finally put their longest game of the season to bed late Thursday night via a 3-2 victory that mercifully ended some 25 minutes before midnight.

Facing Bowie reliever Kyler Newby, who was on the mound for his second inning of relief, Aeros catcher Roberto Perez singled home right fielder Ben Copeland to complete the walk-off win and secure the Aeros three-game series sweep at Canal Park.